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Prof Thomas Paterson Noble FRCSE FRSE OWE (1887–1959) was a Scottish surgeon who served Prajadhipok, the King of Siam

Life

He was born in Galashiels on 3 March 1887 in son of Alexander Noble, a chemist, and his wife Margaret Paterson. He studied Medicine at Edinburgh University graduating MB ChB in 1911 and gaining his MD in 1913. He also studied at University College London and held resident posts at Leith, Greenwich, and Queen Charlotte's Hospital.

In the First World War he served as a Lieutenant in the Royal Army Medical Corps.[1][2] After the war he took a post at the Orthopaedic Hospital in Oswestry then in 1924 gained a Rockefeller Scholarship to the Mayo Clinic in America. From here (around 1925) he received a unique opportunity to work in what was then Siam (now Thailand) as Professor of Surgery at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok. He also then became official Physician to Prajadhipok, the King of Siam.[3]

He was awarded the Orders of the Crown and the White Elephant.

In 1927 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Sir Frederick Hobday, Spencer Mort, Francis Albert Eley Crew and Sir David Wilkie.[4]

He left Siam during the Second World War and returned to Britain to fill necessary roles vacated by the war, becoming Surgeon in Charge of Ebbw Vale General Hospital in Wales in 1940.

He retired to Southampton soon after the end of the war once a suitable person was found to fill his role. He continued as a consultant to the Ministry of Pensions.

He died in Bournemouth on 16 December 1959.

Family

In 1914 he married Cecilia Farmer. They had one daughter.

Publications

  • Myositis ossificans. Surg Gynec Obstet 1924, 39, 795-802.
  • Pseudocoxalgia. J Bone Jt Surg 1925, 7, 70-84.
  • Klippel-Feils syndrome, numerical reduction of cervical vertebrae, with J M Frawley. Ann Surg 1925, 82, 728-734.
  • Acute bone atrophy, with E D W Hauser. Arch Surg 1926,12, 75-94.

References

  1. ^ "Noble, Thomas Paterson | Index to Doctors in Scotland during the First World War". smsec.rcpe.ac.uk. Retrieved 2017-11-03.
  2. ^ Quarterly Army List for Period Ednding 31 December 1919
  3. ^ "Noble, Thomas Paterson - Biographical entry - Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Online". livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk. Retrieved 2017-11-03.
  4. ^ Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0 902 198 84 X.
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